Kate Sheppard

Residence 1

📍Nairn, Highland IV12, Scotland, United Kingdom

“I was born in Liverpool to Scottish parents, but it was the north of Scotland — Nairn, on the Moray Firth — that shaped me, where for a time I lived with my uncle, a minister of the Free Church. From him, and from that serious, Presbyterian, book-loving world, I took my faith, my conscience, and a conviction that right and wrong were matters worth acting upon. We were a family that moved often and knew loss, and I grew up clever, principled and quietly certain. When we sailed for New Zealand in 1868 I carried that Scottish moral seriousness with me — and it became the engine of everything I would fight for.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Kate Sheppard

Residence 2

📍83 Clyde Road, Ilam, Christchurch 8041, New Zealand

“In 1888 Walter and I built a house at 83 Clyde Road in Christchurch, and it became the headquarters of a revolution. Around my drawing-room table the suffragists planned, wrote and gathered — and from here I helped drive the great petition of 1893, nearly thirty thousand signatures pasted into a roll longer than the floor of Parliament. On the nineteenth of September that year New Zealand became the first self-governing nation on earth to give women the vote. This quiet Christchurch house, with its garden and its meetings, is where ordinary women decided they would no longer be governed without their say.”

Sources: Wikipedia: Kate Sheppard